The Voyage-7 session Prep-Handbook
So you don’t freak out when we start
Below is a list of links to help you get oriented and ready for your Remote-developer code Voyage! Don’t feel like you have to read & watch everything (you won’t be able to).
🔥Reminder — The Voyage-7 Onboarding starts November 12th & teams will be released 3–5 days later.
1 — Why Chingu?
So you’ve joined a Chingu cohort?
Guess what?! Not only are you on a path to accelerate your learning and develop in-demand collaboration skills, but by joining a team you’re also contributing to Chingu’s mission of building a global collaboration capital for tech-learners!
A place where developers, designers, data scientists and digital marketers with shared goals join teams to learn & build! 🚀
2 — What can I expect?
In your cohort you can expect a super friendly/supportive community of developers, designers (and probably some data scientists) with shared goals.
You’ll share resources and knowledge with each other, keep each other accountable, and of course, BUILD a project for your portfolio while in a team.
Let’s also not forget: you will be challenged to level-up your skills. This is not a tutorial where you lazily follow through. This is the antidote to tutorial purgatory.
Learning the basics of team collaboration is not easy, and it will bring you out of your comfort zones at times, but it’s a super power in today’s global economy.
On that note: you can also expect that if you show grit, you’ll also come out with a shiny new project for your portfolio (some teams even build nonprofit projects or projects that create value for others).
3 — How can I prepare for this level-ups Voyage?
🔥A) Learn the basics of git/github
When we ask experienced members what the number one way to prepare for a team project is, they all say: Learn the basics of git/github!
If you’re new to git, do this→ Learn Git basics in 15 minutes
These Git articles (written by the legendary Chingu Francesco Agnoletto) shall be your guide! Also: see Francesco’s video on git below for more.
🔥B) Learn and begin to practice these essential Soft Skills.
30 principles to level-up your Soft Skills
(Note: if you learn these principles and how to apply them, they’ll change your life, full stop.)
C) Get acquainted with the Voyage Project Roadmap
(aka how your team project will work)
If you don’t have a small project finished, do that before the cohort starts.
This topic is related the C) with commitment. A huge part of reaching your goals is commitment and follow-through.
If you decided to start coding yesterday, you shouldn’t start with a team project. We need to be able to trust that you’ll committed to this and are not just going to drop out from your team when it gets tough (and it will get tough).
Prove you’re committed to your goals by showing that you’ve built something. It can be a github repo project, a simple codepen, a FreeCodeCamp project. It’s less about impressing us with a project and MORE about signalling that we can trust you enough to put you in a team.
Note: if you don’t have a project finished yet, you’ll still be able to join the cohort and benefit from the network and opportunities like Pair-Programming.
4 — Schedule: here is the Chingu Winter session schedule
November 12 — Cohort launch date
November 15 — Cohort teams launched
November 19 — Team Sprint 1
November 25 — Act 1 (Project Setup) due date
November 26 — Team Sprint 2
December 3 — Team Sprint 3
December 10 — Team Sprint 4
December 17 — Team Sprint 5
December 24 — Team Sprint 6 (many teams will take this week off for the holidays)
December 31 — Team Sprint 7
January 7 — Team Sprint 8, Act 2 due date (Coding sprints)
January 14 — Act 3 (Project Closure) due date, Projects due date
January 21 — Team Project Showcase article published
5 — Want to be SUPER prepared? Check these out!
Voyage-related documents
(aka options for your team to build)
(It’s worth going through the Team-Lead wiki as each team will choose the team-lead amongst themselves)
🎆 If you get any of these 5 Chingus on your team, you just hit the remote dev lottery
🔥So you’ve been matched in a Chingu Pair-Programming Festival: what’s next?
5 — From past members (resources, experiences, etc.)
🔥 Francesco Agnoletto on how to use Git/Github in a team setting
🔥@Oliver & @Dan, on Pair-Programming Tips (& a mini Demo)
(Note: in the Voyage we also facilitate Pair-programming matches each week! 🍾)
— Ben Kandelaars on his experience/team workflow in a Voyage (they reverse-engineered Airbnb!)
🔥Vannya, on being a Project Manager and Team Developer
— Van Tabbert on the importance of building Momentum in remote teams.
Francesca Sadikin on her team’s project in a past Voyage (they built TurtlesTab!)
5.2 — Member Articles
🔥 ziggysauce article on his Voyage-4 team experience
Also, here is an article he wrote after he got a job!
🔥Sarah Schneider (one of the creators of CO/MENT, a Voyage project) on her experience in a Voyage team:
Six things I learned in six weeks on a Chingu Voyage Build2Learn project
🔥Eun Park’s article on her experience in a Voyage team:
Stress and insecurity: a newbie’s first remote dev team experience
🔥Matthew Burfield on his code adventure
How I got a mid-level front end developer role in just 8 months
5.3 — Past Project Showcases
🚀 Never stop building (Voyage-5/6)
🚀 Build, hack, learn: 50+ remote developer projects from the Chingu cohorts to start your day off right (Voyage-4)
🚀 The Winter Chingu Project Showcase (Voyage-3)
🚀 The Fall Chingu Project Showcase (Voyage-2)
🚀 The Spring/Summer Chingu Project Showcase (Voyage-1)
6 — Follow the Chingu Medium Publication 🚀
Make sure you don’t miss your cohort’s weekly update articles, member projects, news, job announcements & any other opportunities we find out about by pressing “follow” for the Chingu publication.
We also publish project showcases and member articles (tutorials, tips, experiences, etc.).
I CAN’T WAIT TO START!!
